Hellas
Blade Whisperer
Apart from the fact that I personally consider the Ibsen and its "derivatives" regarding the heads (Liese, Lumina, Kratz) to be one of the most beautiful slants, not so much has been written yet about it.
Well, that's sometimes not so easy, because it also depends a bit on what you just got for a head. In contrast to Liese, which is identical in construction to the principle, where I - with the few I had in my hand and face so far - had no difference in the head geometry, there seems to be some difference in the production of the Ibsen.
But on thing after the other:
My own Ibsen shaves pretty much identical to my two Liese. Also the geometry of the head is not much different than that of my two Liese: It is direct and very thorough, but by no means particularly aggressive or unpredictable. The Ibsen was the slant that took away my "torsion phobia" after the 37c - which I can't deal with at all. In contrast to the 37c and some other slants, the Ibsen is a "little lamb" for me. Although it is direct and does not harmonize with every blade (which razor do that?), it is gentle and very thorough with me. You might have to get used to 3-4 shaves and find his "blade angle". With me this is rather "scraping". But then it doesn't require the super concentration of an Apollo slant or R41. However the Ibsen is just as little as the Liese such a little lamb as a Romi / Pfeilring / Lutz
But, all this is only valid for "my" Ibsen, this one:
However, there are also some Ibsen, with heads that seem quite "warped". The most extreme example I ever had in my hands was a razor from my friend titanus where the geometry looked like this: (right is mine)
In comparison to the right one you can see quite clearly that the base plate is less curved and therefore the blade does not rest completely on the base plate, so that the blade gap is already "fearsome". Someone has trimmed the base plate very aggressively. It was not really possible to determine whether this had already happened due to production or whether it had fallen on it in later decades due to later use or something heavy and pressed the base plate "flatter". It may shave a touch milder than a rather robustly guided R41, but only perhaps. For lovers of particularly direct planes, this is certainly the Ibsen Special Edition.
Well, that's sometimes not so easy, because it also depends a bit on what you just got for a head. In contrast to Liese, which is identical in construction to the principle, where I - with the few I had in my hand and face so far - had no difference in the head geometry, there seems to be some difference in the production of the Ibsen.
But on thing after the other:
My own Ibsen shaves pretty much identical to my two Liese. Also the geometry of the head is not much different than that of my two Liese: It is direct and very thorough, but by no means particularly aggressive or unpredictable. The Ibsen was the slant that took away my "torsion phobia" after the 37c - which I can't deal with at all. In contrast to the 37c and some other slants, the Ibsen is a "little lamb" for me. Although it is direct and does not harmonize with every blade (which razor do that?), it is gentle and very thorough with me. You might have to get used to 3-4 shaves and find his "blade angle". With me this is rather "scraping". But then it doesn't require the super concentration of an Apollo slant or R41. However the Ibsen is just as little as the Liese such a little lamb as a Romi / Pfeilring / Lutz
But, all this is only valid for "my" Ibsen, this one:
However, there are also some Ibsen, with heads that seem quite "warped". The most extreme example I ever had in my hands was a razor from my friend titanus where the geometry looked like this: (right is mine)
In comparison to the right one you can see quite clearly that the base plate is less curved and therefore the blade does not rest completely on the base plate, so that the blade gap is already "fearsome". Someone has trimmed the base plate very aggressively. It was not really possible to determine whether this had already happened due to production or whether it had fallen on it in later decades due to later use or something heavy and pressed the base plate "flatter". It may shave a touch milder than a rather robustly guided R41, but only perhaps. For lovers of particularly direct planes, this is certainly the Ibsen Special Edition.
